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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






2. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






3. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






4. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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5. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






6. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






7. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






8. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






9. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






10. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






11. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






12. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






13. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






14. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






15. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






16. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






17. English as a second language






18. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






19. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






20. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






21. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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22. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






23. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






24. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






25. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






26. Closed syllable






27. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






28. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






29. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






30. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






31. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






32. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






33. Final stable syllable

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34. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






35. Wide Range Achievement Test






36. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






37. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






38. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






39. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






40. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






41. Open syllable






42. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






43. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






44. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






45. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






46. Multisensory Structured Language






47. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






48. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






49. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






50. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.